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PENTSTEMON GENTIANOIDES. 
(gentian-like PENTSTEMON.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DIANDRIA. ANGIOSPERMIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
SCROPHUL ARI ANEtE . 
Generic Character. — See vol. iii., p. 265. 
Specific Character. — Plant an herbaceous perennial, growing from one foot to eighteen inches high. 
Stem nearly erect, much branched. Flowers produced on a lengthened peduncle, panicled, 
scattered. Calyx of five nearly equal segments. Corolla an inch in length, of a beautiful purple 
colour. Limb of five nearly equal parts. Germ,en egg-shaped. 
This truly valuable and new species of Pentstemon was imported from the 
continent in 1836, by the Messrs. Young at Epsom, in whose nursery it produced 
its handsome purple blossoms for the first time in September 1837. Like the rest 
of the beautiful species lately added to this genus, the one now for the first time 
figured especially deserves extensive cultivation. The habit being somewhat 
dwarf, the leaves a deep green, and the exterior of the flowers a rich purple, while 
the inside of the corolla is white and beautifully marked, we are satisfied that this 
species, as it flowers most profusely, will prove of the greatest value for the flower 
garden in autumn, especially for grouping in small beds in contrast with such 
others as Verbena Tweediana, nervosa, &c. &c. The flowering season is August 
and September. 
It requires precisely the same treatment as P. Murrai/anus, figured vol. iii. 
page 265, that is, to be planted out in the open border in summer, and kept 
through the winter on the shelf of a greenhouse, or in a pit near the glass, where 
the situation is light, dry, and airy, and the frost merely excluded. It may be 
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